I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Life is education.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Every time, I try to make something different.

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.